A history of the world in funny puns

“That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind,” said Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong when he became the first man to set foot on the MOON on July 21, 1969. He described the surface as being like powdered charcoal. In total, 12 humans have walked on the moon, the last being in 1972. When Armstrong wrote his memoir, it was double spaced.

• Why didn't people like the restaurant on the Moon? Because there was no atmosphere

• What holds the moon up? Moonbeams

• How did Neil Armstrong get a haircut on the moon? Eclipsed it

• The star asked the sun why the moon was always up so late. The sun replied that it was just a phase